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mark down something

to reduce the price of something. The machine, originally priced at $50, was marked down to $37.50. If it doesn't sell at full price, we'll have to mark it down.

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Being well-known to the attendants, she always had a seat provided for her; and, taking some gold and a few thousand-franc notes out of her pocket--would begin quietly, coldly, and after much calculation, to stake, and mark down the figures in pencil on a paper, as though striving to work out a system according to which, at given moments, the odds might group themselves. The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context He will get on to Paris, mark down our luggage, and wait for two days at the depot. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context Mark down her necklace, Bunny, and invoice his stud. Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context More results

References in classic literature

Being well-known to the attendants, she always had a seat provided for her; and, taking some gold and a few thousand-franc notes out of her pocket--would begin quietly, coldly, and after much calculation, to stake, and mark down the figures in pencil on a paper, as though striving to work out a system according to which, at given moments, the odds might group themselves.

The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

He will get on to Paris, mark down our luggage, and wait for two days at the depot.

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

Mark down her necklace, Bunny, and invoice his stud.

Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context

More results

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